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The IODP opportunity and value propositionThe International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) is a multinational research programme that addresses fundamental questions about Earth processes by drilling beneath the seafloor to collect and analyse sediment, rock and biological samples and to install apparatus for subseafloor monitoring. It is the largest international collaboration in geoscience, involving 24 nations and with an annual budget of USD$67M1. Scientific drilling is the best means to access the subsurface archive of Earth dynamic processes and changes over geological timescales. IODP expeditions are developed from hypothesis-driven science proposals aligned with the program's Science Plan2 “Illuminating Earth's Past, Present, and Future”, which addresses a wide range of societally relevant research questions, ranging from geological hazards and climate change to the nature of life in extreme environments.
IODP research aims to provide underpinning data and knowledge that will improved forecasts of future geohazards events, better inform responses to climate change, contribute to the stewardship of resources, and broaden research capability in marine geoscience. IODP membership underpins the substantial interdependencies between global science priorities, funding agencies, national and international marine scientists and their institutions, and New Zealand major trading partners.
New Zealand participates in the program in consortium with Australia (the Australian and New Zealand IODP Consortium -ANZIC). Our formal entry into scientific ocean drilling in 2008 has brought together GNS Science, NIWA and three of our leading universities. We have taken full advantage of six IODP expeditions in our region over 2017 and 2018 to lead research of global significance, in partnership with scientists from more than 20 other countries. For an annual investment of USD$300,000 per year since 2008, New Zealand has leveraged over USD$80M of international funding for these expeditions.
IODP utilises facilities funded by three platform providers: US funds the research vessel JOIDES Resolution; Japan funds the research vessel Chikyu, and a European consortium funds a range of mission-specific drilling platforms. New Zealand’s membership level allows us to send one participant on an expedition per year, to submit proposals to lead expeditions, attend workshops, and access core archives. All direct costs are covered by the membership fee; these include operation of the drilling vessels, travel and accommodation related to expeditions, workshops and meetings, curation of cores and freight of samples.
The ProposalANZIC and IODP agreements are established till September 2020 but continued IODP membership relies on funding applications to Australian funding agencies through infrastructure grant support mechanisms and continued long term commitment by science institutions in New Zealand. Given the unprecedented level of leveraging of science
1 http://iodp.tamu.edu/publications/PP/IODP_JRSO_FY18_APP.pdf2 https://www.iodp.org/about-iodp/iodp-science-plan-2013-2023
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investment provided by New Zealand’s membership in IODP, it is essential that our membership be continued beyond 2020.
The New Zealand Earth science community seeks long-term and enhanced commitment from the New Zealand government to support IODP research. We propose to double our current commitment be contributing an annual fee of USD$600,000. This will allow New Zealand to increase our berth entitlements and increase our leverage over the future direction of the programme. Doubling berth entitlements will open up IODP research to a wider range of local scientists. Direct government funding may allow us to offer these opportunities to all New Zealand-based scientists. A potential mechanism to support this initiative is the MBIE Strategic Science Investment Fund - Infrastructure component. The commitment to double New Zealand’s involvement is in line with our Australian partners objective of also doubling the requested amount in their 2019 funding application, from USD$1.5M to USD$3M
There is an ongoing expectation that New Zealand CRI members (GNS Science and NIWA) and university partners will continue to contribute to the costs of membership and participation in IODP. The appropriate level of theseis contributions needs discussion and negotiation.
New Zealand Participation in IODP 2008 - 2018 Since 2008, New Zealand participation in IODP has been coordinated by a team based at GNS Science and managed by a national committee. Participation is open to staff and students of those universities and research institutes that pay an annual membership fee. Current members include GNS Science, NIWA, University of Otago, Victoria University of Wellington, and University of Auckland.
Participation in JOIDES ResolutionJR Voyages
In the decade since 2008, 29 New Zealand shipboard scientists, spanning all the member institutions, have participated in 12 JR voyages and one has sailed on the Chikyu (Table 1). This number far exceeds the official quota. Six of the scientists were Cco-Cchiefs on expeditions in the New Zealand EEZ and, on expedition Leg 372, both Co-Chiefs co-chiefs were New Zealanders. A portionSome of these participants are early career researchers that have gone on to the lead proposals and one has achieved the position of Co-Chiefco-chief. In addition, six New Zealanders will have sailed on the JR as Education and Outreach officers by the end of 2018. Other scientists have been involved in writing proposals and many will be shore-based researchers, who will join the expedition science teams in follow-up research.
IODP serves as a technical and scientific training ground providing opportunities for graduate students to work alongside international teams of scientists. Since 2008, 15 graduate students have studied material recovered from IODP drilling legs in New Zealand and Southern Ocean waters (Table 2). Many have provided important and valuable preparatory work for the recent and upcoming eExpeditions and have filled specialist positions onboard or as shore-based scientists, based directly from PhD specialisation.
Complementary Research Voyages
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Since 2011 the New Zealand earth science community have completed 29 marine research voyages using the RV Tangaroa, and French, USA, Japanese, German, Korean, and Australian research ships, completing IODP complementary and ancillary science projects and building towards JR drilling (Table 3). Collectively these voyages amount to co-founding of >$70M.
In support of the two IODP Legs expeditions on the Hikurangi margin (Legs 372 and 375) 17 voyages (10 using RV Tangaroa and 7 international) have been completed and 3 others will take place early in 2019. These voyages data were underpinned by a decade of seismological, geodetic, and geological data acquired onshore and offshore. In the Tasman Sea 6 research voyages have been completed including back-to-back cruises of the French research flag ship R/V L'Atalante. However, those voyages build on a legacy of over 182,000-line km from 1855 seismic lines compiled in preparation for Leg 371. Much of that data comprises open file industry- acquired seismic profilesdata and lodged with the NZ Government. Four research voyages were completed along the Kermadec arc since 2011 (supporting Leg 376), that have added to more than a decade of detailed mapping and sampling Brothers submarine volcano that included ROV and submersible AUV dives. Two voyages have been completed in the Ross Sea with the objective of finalising site selection for Leg 374. These surveys add to the Antarctic Seismic Data Library holding of many 10000s of km of open-file data that which New Zealand has contributed to.
Research Proposals
To support the science that underpinned our successful build the science programme for the IODP expedition proposalsLegs, 36 New Zealand and international associated research programs from the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, and Japan, have been funded in the last 7 years, including 9 Marsden Funded proposals and 2 MBIE Endeavour projects (Table 4). In addition, Strategic Science Investment Funds to GNS and NIWA have paid IODP membership, and resourced proposals to scheduling, and provide limited support for Co-Chief Scientist responsibilities and on-going expedition data analysis.
Education and Outreach
Port visits in 2009, 2010 and 2018 have provided opportunities for tours of the JR by school students, university students and staff, the general public, media and VIPs in Auckland, Wellington, and Lyttelton and Timaru. Expedition-based outreach has included live ship-to-shore links to schools, museums and university classes throughout the country. For the past two years, New Zealand has hosted the ANZIC Masterclass, a two-week intensive course on marine geoscience for undergraduate students from participating universities in Australian and New Zealand. We will host the Masterclass again in December 2018.
In 2018 we will also host the IODP School of Rock, a 9-day introduction to marine geoscience for teachers and science communicators open to all IODP member countries. School of Rock 2018 – Te Kura Kōhatu – is based in Auckland and will involve 6 participants from New Zealand, 5 froorm Australia and 7 froorm the United States.
IODP Science Diplomacy
New Zealand IODP membership has been coordinated by participation in writing the IODP Science Plan and having 10 New Zealand scientists selected on IODP panels and committees. Moreover, IODP research themes incorporate shared interests with other national and
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international research programs including GeoPRISMS, where New Zealand has been selected as one of the three US National Science Foundation global focus sites3. Others complementary programmes focus on land (e.g., International Continental Scientific Drilling Program), ice (Antarctic Geological Drilling), climate (e.g., International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Past Global Changes project, European Project on Ocean Acidification), or the deep biosphere (e.g., Deep Carbon Observatory). In addition, Also leading New Zealand institutions have recently formally established MoUs with JAMSTEC, Geoscience Australia, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and Geological Survey of New Caledonia. We regularly brief French and German Embassies in Wellington. The “reach” of the New Zealand- led proposals includes most of New Zealand’s major trading partners.
Future IODP Proposals in New Zealand RegionIODP missions are proposal driven and the body of active proposals, and the flow of new proposals, are known towill sustain IODP through to its next phase (post 2023). To meet the challenge of continuing to address global science questions, that can be uniquely addressed in the South West Pacific, ANZIC convened the IODP Australasian Regional Workshop in June 2017 with the aim of building the next generation of proposals4. In the New Zealand region, two existing proposals were show-cased including:
Proposal 781B-Full: Hikurangi Subduction Margin Riser. This is proposal for a Chikyu deep hole into the subduction plate boundary faultinterface. 3D seismic reflection data acquisition was completed over proposed sites in Jan 2018. Post analysis of Expeditions 372 and 375 samples and processing of 3D seismic the case for deep drilling will be reviewed with a decision to either proceed with the Chikyu option that could piggy back on 871-CPP (below) or, alternatively, another JR proposal be submitted.
Proposal 871-CPP Lord Howe Rise. In Australian EEZ and the focus of a number of voyages of the RV Investigator and Japanese research vessels.
Out of the IODP Australasian Regional Workshop in June 2017 workshop innovative ideas were developed and one submitted as a preproposal in Oct 2017. These include:
1. Episodic fluid flow driven by slow slip and its impact on gas hydrate systems (Porangahau Ridge, eastern North Island).
2. Hikurangi Plateau Large Igneous Provenance and Subduction Inputs.3. Testing Geodynamic models for subduction initiation: Puysegur Trench.4. Pre- Proposal 924 Accumulation and Release of Carbon Dioxide from Geologic
Sources in the South Pacific: Chatham Rise, New Zealand” has been invited to develop a Full Proposal.
5. Eruptive processes and transport in submarine volcanic environments.6. Offshore freshwater resources in the Canterbury Basin.7. Southeast Chatham Rise margin: tectonics, dynamics and paleoceanography.8. From Leg 374 (Ross Sea) sites U1524 and RSCR-19A kept in the scheduling pool for
JRFB. Proponents to submit a mini-leg proposal to SEP to drill additional new sites near the Ross Ice Shelf by October 2018 to bring it up to a full expedition.
3 http://geoprisms.org/initiatives-sites/scd/new-zealand4 https://www.iodp.org/australasian-workshop-report-june-2017/file Proposals
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Current ANZIC GovernanceOur national and international networks are also governed by negotiated contracts for IODP membership with Australia (ANZIC), MoUs and Implementing Agreements with our major science partners.
1. The Australian National University (ANU) is the lead funding agency for ANZIC. On behalf of all Australia/New Zealand funding entities, the ANU signed the principal MoU between the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF)5 in late 2013 to be updated 2018.
2. GNS Science (GNS) is the lead agency for New Zealand ANZIC membership (NZ IODP) and signatory to the MoU with ANU6 – signed 2016 and expires September 2020.
3. NZ IODP membership is governed in turn by a Multiparty Institutional Agreement between GNS and NIWA, Victoria University, Otago University, and Auckland University7.
In the current arrangement GNS Science holds the NZ IODP Secretariat and retains a permanent seat on the ANZIC Governing Council.
In any future negotiations with the US National Science Foundation, and countries in the Asia Pacific region, ANZIC may be widened to include Korea and Singapore.
SummaryThe positive impacts for New Zealand IODP membership include improved understanding of the Earth’s climate and oceans and how they will respond to rapid environmental changes in the coming decades. The completed expeditions legs and planned proposals on the Hikurangi margin will provide improved assessment of earthquake and tsunami hazards and establishment of a long-term borehole observatory to monitor tectonic plate behaviour off the East Coast of the North Island. Scientific drilling has established the framework and understanding for the development of seafloor metal deposits, and the role of microbial communities in generating and biodegrading hydrocarbons and affords access to samples and analysis of geological processes in New Zealand’s marine territory that can be acquired in no other way. In addition, membership delivers invaluable training opportunities for the next generation of New Zealand scientists and engineers plus unrivalled opportunities for students, teachers, and the public to engage with marine science. Finally, IODP and ANZIC enhances New Zealand science diplomacy and leverages international connections that benefit the broader science system and New Zealand.
5 ANZIC has committed to total membership contribution of US$7.5 million to NSF, representing a commitment to IODP of 50% of a full membership for 5 years from 2016 to 2020 (US$1.5M per year). ANZIC membership to IODP MoU with the US will change mid-2019 to reflect increases in cost to the running of the RV JOIDES Resolution. ANZIC will most likely reduce membership to 37.5% or attempt continuation at 50% affiliation, however, the latter option would end membership earlier than the end of 2020.6 GNS and the other New Zealand participants currently make a $US300,000 per annum commitment to IODP membership. This represents a New Zealand:Australia quota of 1:6. 7 The MIA was signed Aug 2016 and expires September 2020. The MIA also includes the annual International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) membership fee of $US50,000. The annual contribution from these parties is $35,000 for IODP and $10,000 for ICDP. Institutions are invoiced annually and GNS makes up the difference from SDF, which is currently $320,000 per year
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Table 1: New Zealand ANZIC Participants on IODP Expeditions 2008 till 2018. All expeditions using JOIDES Resolution unless specified otherwise.
IODP Expedition Date NZ Participants
320: PEAT 1:
Eastern Pacific paleoceanography
March 5-May 5, 2009 Christian Ohneiser (Otago), paleomagnetism
317: Canterbury Basin: sea level fluctuations in last 20 million years
Nov. 4, 2009-Jan. 4, 2010 Greg Browne and Martin Crundwell (GNS), Kirsty Tinto (Otago)
318: Wilkes Land: climate and ocean change at the Antarctic margin over the past 50 million years
Jan 4- March 9, 2010 Robt McKay (Victoria University)
340: Lesser Antilles volcanism and landslides
Mar 3 – April 17, 2012 Martin Jutzeler (Otago), structural geology
343: Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project: (Chikyu)
April 1 - May 21, 2012 Virginia Toy (Otago), structural geology
342: Paleogene Newfoundland sediment drifts
June 2 – Aug. 11, 2012 Chris Hollis (GNS), micropaleontology
341: Southern Alaska Margin tectonics, climate and sedimentation
May 29 – July 29, 2013 Chris Moy (Otago), Carol Larson (NZ National Aquarium, Napier), Education and Outreach
361: Southern African Climates and Agulhas Current Density Profile
Jan. 30-March 31, 2016 John Rolison (Otago), inorganic chemist
371: Tasman Frontier Subduction and Climate (Lord Howe Rise) (838)
July 27 –Sept. 26, 2017 Co-Chief Scientist Rupert Sutherland, Victoria; Wanda Stratford (GNS) physical properties; Kristina Pascher (GNS), micropaleontology; Hugh Morgans (GNS) micropaleontology
372: Gas Hydrates & Hikurangi Subduction Margin LWD (781B & 841)
Nov. 26, 2017 – Jan. 4, 2018
Co-Chief Scientists Ingo Pecher (Auckland) gas hydrates and Philip Barnes (NIWA) Hikurangi Subduction Marginregional geology; Joshu Mountjoy (NIWA), sedimentologist; Erin Todd (Otago) Education and Outreach.
374: Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Shelf (751)
Jan. 24-March 8, 2018 Co-Chief Scientist Rob McKay (VUW); Giuseppe Cortese (GNS), micropaleontology; Rosa Hughes-Currie (Waitakere College), Education and
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Outreach
375: Hikurangi Subduction margin (781A)
March 8 –May 5, 2018 Co-Chief Scientist Laura Wallace (GNS); Philip Barnes (NIWA), core log and seismic integration; Martin Crundwell (GNS), micropaleontology; Annika Greve (VUW), paleomagnetism; Claire Shepherd (GNS), micropaleontology; Aliki Weststrate (Outer Reaches) (NZ), Education and Outreach
376: Brothers Arc Flux (818)
May 5 – July 5 2018 Co-Chief Scientist Cornel de Ronde (GNS); Fabio Caratori-Tontini (GNS), paleomagnetics; Agnes Reyes (GNS), downhole specialist; Cécile Massiot Geothermal Geologist; Perry Hyde (Te Papa), Education and Outreach
378: South Pacific Paleogene Climate
Oct. 14 – Dec.14, 2018 Chris Hollis (GNS) micropaleontology
379: Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History
Jan. 18 - March 20, 2019 Joe Prebble (GNS) micropaleontology
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Table 2: New Zealand graduate students whose research is related to current and past IODP, ODP, and DSDP Expeditions
IODP Expedition 371Institution Degree Supervisor Student Year IODP Leg Thesis CommentVictoria University of Wellington
PhD Chris Hollis/Rob McKay
Kristina Pascher
2017 Multiple DSDP and ODP drill sites in NZ region
Paleobiogeography of Eocene Radiolarians in the Southwest Pacific
Provided important preparatory work for Expedition 371 and Expedition 378. She sailed on Expedition 371 as a non-quota specialist call based directly on her PhD specialisation.
Victoria University of Wellington
MSc Rupert Sutherland
Callum Skinner 2018-
371 New Caledonia Trough (U1509) to Taranaki
Victoria University of Wellington
MSc Rupert Sutherland
Damian Orr 2018 -
371 Reinga/Northland (U1508, TAN1312)
University of Canterbury
PhD Philip Barnes/Andy Nicol/Jarg Pettinga
Sam Davidson 2018 372/375 Impacts of rough-crust subduction, North Hikurangi
Seismic interpretation linked to site U1520
IODP Expedition 372 and 375
Institution Degree Supervisor Student Year IOD Leg Thesis CommentUniversity of Auckland
PhD Ingo Pecher Adnan Dieffal 2017-current
372 Using logs from Exp. 372 to calibrate seismic data related to gas hydrates
Victoria University of Wellington
PhD Chris Hollis/James Crampton
Claire Shepherd
2017 Multiple DSDP and ODP drill sites in NZ region
Early to middle Eocene calcareous nannofossils of the SW Pacific: paleobiogeography and paleoclimate
Provided important preparatory work for Expedition 371 and Expedition 378. Sailed on Expedition 375 as a non-quota specialist based directly on her
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PhD specialisation
IODP Expeditions 374 and past IODP/ODP expeditions to AntarcticaInstitution Degree Supervisor Student Year IODP Leg Thesis CommentVictoria University of Wellington
PhD Rob McKay Molly Patterson 2014 2010 IODP 318 Wilkes Land, Antarctica
The response of Antarctic ice volume, global sea-level and southwest Pacific Ocean circulation to orbital variations during the Pliocene to Early Pleistocene
PhD on IODP Expedition 318 (Wilkes Land, Antarctica). She is now an Assistant Professor at Binghampton University in USA, and was a shipboard participant on Expedition 374 (Ross Sea).
Victoria University of Wellington
PhD Rob McKay Bella Duncan 2017 DSDP leg 28 Cenozoic Antarctic climate evolution based on molecular and isotopic biomarker reconstructions from geological archives in the Ross Sea region
Worked on DSDP leg 28, and other Ross Sea cores and preparatory work for IODP Expedition 374 (pilot studies on proxies). She is now a shore-based researcher on Expedition 374 (post doc)
Victoria University of Wellington
MSc Rob McKay Georgia Grant 2012 318 Wilkes Land, Antarctica Pliocene-Pleistocene
Orbital Cyclostratigraphy and Glacial Evolution of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet from Continental Rise IODP Site U1361, Wilkes Land Margin, East Antarctica
Victoria University of Wellington
MSc Rob McKay Anna Albot 2017 318 Wilkes Land, Antarctica Holocene sediment
transport and climate variability of offshore Adélie Land, East Antarctica
Victoria MSc Rob McKay Olga Al’bot 2016 Pleistocene Sailed on KOPRI cruise and
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University of Wellington cyclostratigraphy on the
continental rise and abyssal plain of the western Ross Sea, Antarctica
completed MSc on site survey cores relevant to choosing final sites for IODP Leg 374 (Ross Sea).
Victoria University of Wellington
MSc Rob McKay Christoph Kraus
2016 DSDP site 270 Oligocene to early Miocene glacimarine sedimentation of the central Ross Sea, and implications for the evolution of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Worked DSDP site 270. This was direct preparatory work for IODP Leg 374 (Ross Sea), as this core is key to stratigraphic framework.
Victoria University of Wellington
PhD Rob McKay Katelyn Johnson
2018 -
318 Wilkes Land, Antarctica
Victoria University of Wellington
MSc Rob McKay Rebbeca Pretty 2018 -
318 Wilkes Land, Antarctica
Victoria University of Wellington
MSc Rob McKay Nikita Thurton 2018 -
318 Wilkes Land, Antarctica
Post Doc IODP Expeditions
Institution Funding Researcher year IOD Leg CommentVictoria University of Wellington
Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship ($260K).
Rob McKay 2008-2012
318 Wilkes Land, Antarctica Research related to IODP Expedition 318 (Wilkes land) and support him as a shipboard participant. Now Associate Professor at VUW.
Victoria University of Wellington
Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid
Rob McKay 2011 318 Wilkes Land, Antarctica
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Emerging Scientist, for New Zealand’s top emerging researcher (across all disciplines) ($NZ200k)
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Table 3: Marine research voyages since 2011 to advance and complement IODP Expeditions.
Marine voyages since 2011 to advance and complement IODP Expeditions 372 and 375.SURVEY Activity Geographic Area Vessel Voyage Leader (s) YEAR Estimated
cost(total voyage)
TAN1114 Seismic reflection site survey
Hikurangi margin, Offshore Gisborne
R/V Tangaroa Philip Barnes (NIWA) and Stuart Henrys (GNS)
2011 $1,083,000
SSLOBS Deployment of Ocean Bottom Seismographs
East Coast of North Island
M/V Ocean Pioneer
Stuart Henrys, Kimihiro Mochizuki
2012 $72,000
SLOPS Geophysical - OBS recovery, pressure sensor deployment
Hikurangi margin M/V Amaltal Mariner
Stuart Henrys (GNS), Shuichi Suzuki and Yoshihiro Ito (UoT)
2013 $130,000
TAN1404 Tuaheni Landslide Complex, 3D seismic imaging project
Tuaheni (offshore Poverty Bay)
R/V Tangaroa Joshu Mountjoy (NIWA), Sebastian Krastel (Kiel University)
2014 $1,200,000
TAN1405 OBS, OPB instruments deployed
Hikurangi margin, Offshore Gisborne
R/V Tangaroa Stuart Henrys (GNS) 2014 $1,030,000
TAN1508 Gas hydrates and seep reconnaissance survey
Northern East Coast Basin
R/V Tangaroa Joshu Mountjoy (NIWA), Gareth Crutchley, Ingo Pecher (Auckland Uni.)
2015 $1,320,000
RR1508 Heat flow and thermal regime of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone and seismic data
Hikurangi margin R/V Roger Revelle
Harris (OSU), Trehu (OSU, Henrys (GNS Science), Gorman (OU)
2015 $4,000,000
RR1509 OBS and OBP deployment and Recovery Cruise
Hikurangi margin R/V Roger Revelle
Laura Wallace 2015 $1,200,000
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SO247 MBEO Coring Hikurangi margin, Offshore Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay
R/V Sonne Katrin Huhn (Marum), Nina Kukowski (U. of Jena)
2016 $5,000,000
TAN1607 OBS, OBP retrieval/deployment, GPS acoustic array survey
Hikurangi Margin R/V Tangaroa Stuart Henrys 2016 $769,000
TAN1613 Piston coring, swath mapping, sub-bottom profiler
Hikurangi Margin R/V Tangaroa Philip Barnes 2017 $800,000
TAN1705 Seafloor geodetic instrument recovery, deployments, GPS-Acoustic surveys. Multicoring.
Offshore east coast North Island and NE coast of South
R/V Tangaroa Laura Wallace 2017 $718,000
IODP372 Drilling 4 sites with coring and logging
East Coast, offshore Gisborne
DV JOIDES Rresolution
Ingo Pecher (Auckland U.) and Philip Barnes (NIWA)
2017
TAN1710 OBS deployment and recovery
East Coast, Hikurangi Trench and Bay of Plenty
R/V Tangaroa Dan Barker 2017 $1,600,000
TAN1712 OBS deployment Hikurangi margin, Offshore Gisborne
R/V Tangaroa Richard Kellett 2017 $360,000
MGL1708 2D seismic East Coast, Hikurangi Trench and Bay of Plenty
R/V Marcus Langseth
Nathan Bangs 2017 $6,500,000
MGL1801 3D seismic Offshore Gisborne R/V Marcus Langseth
Nathan Bangs 2018 $6,500,000
IODP 375 Drilling 4 sites with coring and establish 2 ocean bottom observatories
East Coast DV JOIDES rResolution
Demian Saffer (Penn State U., USA) and Laura Wallace (GNS)
2018
TAN1803 OBS retrieval East Coast R/V Tangaroa Dan Bassett 2018 $600,000
Marine voyages since 2011 to advance and complement IODP Expeditions 371.
SURVEY Activity Geographic Area Vessel Voyage Leader (s) YEAR Estimated
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cost(total voyage)
ECOSAT I Rock dredging collection of underway bathymetry, gravity and magnetic data
Coral Sea R/V Southern Surveyor
Maria Seton, Simon Williams (U. of Sydney), Nick Mortimer (GNS)
2012
TAN1312 Multibeam, gravity, magnetic survey and dredging in the Reinga Basin
Tasman Sea R/V Tangaroa Francois Bache, Rupert Sutherland (GNS)
2013 $1,384,000
TAN1409 IODP SIPC proposal site survey: multichannel seismic, multibeam
Tasman Sea R/V Tangaroa Rupert Sutherland, Stuart Henrys (GNS), and Julian Collot Geological Survey New Caledonia)
2014 $1,475,000
VESPA Seismic reflection survey and rock dredging
Tasman Sea R/V L'Atalante Martin Patriat (Ifremer). Nick Mortimer (GNS)
2015 $5,000,000
TECTA Seismic reflection survey, sub-bottom profiling and multibeam swath survey
Tasman Sea R/V L'Atalante Rupert Sutherland, (GNS), and Julian Collot Geological Survey New Caledonia)
2015 $5,000,000
IN2016_T01 (ECOSAT II)
Rock dredging Tasman Sea R/V Investigator Simon Williams (U. of Sydney), Nick Mortimer (GNS)
2016 $1,000,000
IODP 371 Drilling 6 sites with coring, Tasman Sea DV JOIDES resolution
Rupert Sutherland (VUW) and Jerry Dickens (Rice University, USA
2017
Marine research voyages since 2011 to advance and complement IODP Expeditions 374.
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SURVEY Activity Geographic Area Vessel Voyage Leader (s) YEAR Estimated cost(total voyage)
EUROFLEETS Seismic reflection site survey
Ross Sea R/V Explora 2017 >$1,000,000
KLL-14-64 Seismic reflection site survey
Ross Sea R/V Araon Joohan Lee and Hyung Jun Kim (Korea Polar Research Institute)
2015 >$2,000,000
IODP 374 Six drill holes were planned, but 5 drilled.
Ross Sea DV JOIDES resolution
Rob McKay (VUW) and Laura De Santis (Istituto nazionale di oceanografia e di geofisica sperimentale, Italy)
2018
Marine voyages since 2011 to advance and complement IODP Expeditions 376.
SURVEY Activity Geographic Area Vessel Voyage Leader (s) YEAR Estimated cost(total voyage)
SO253 ROV (Quest 4000) voyage to select volcanoes of the Kermadec arc; vent fluids, chimneys, microbes, heat flow, regional gravity, magnetics and bathymetry
Kermadec arc R/V Sonne Andrea Koschinsky, Wolfgang Bach, Christian Borowski (U. of Bremen), Cornel de Ronde (GNS)
2016-17
$3,500,000
Navy15 Mid-Kermadec arc voyage using the AUV Sentry, in collaboration with the New Zealand Navy
Kermadec arc HMNZS Wellington
Cornel de Ronde (GNS), Carl Kaiser (WHOI)
2015 $1,000,000
QUELLE Submersible Shinkai 6500 dives
Kermadec arc R/V Yokosuka JAMSTEC Scientists and Cornel de Ronde (GNS)
2013 $8,000,000
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TAN1104 AUV Sentry and TowCam mapping Kermadec arc volcanoes
Kermadec arc R/V Tangaroa Cornel de Ronde (GNS) and Malcom Clark (NIWA)
2011 $2,324,000
IODP 376 Six drill holes were planned, but 5 drilled.
Brothers Volcano DV JOIDES resolution
Cornel de Ronde (GNS) and Susan Humphris (WHOI).
2018
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Table 4: Proposals and funded national and international projects in support and complementary to IODP Expeditions
IODP Proposals and funded national and international projects in support and complementary to IODP Expedition 371 Tasman Sea
Title Agency Institution Lead PI Status Planned CommentIODP Proposals
Submitted 2013 Subduction Initiation and Paleogene Climate in the Tasman Frontier, Southwest Pacific
IODP GNS Science R. Sutherland Exp 371 Current 27 July to 26 September 2017
Australia Continuity of Australian terranes into Zealandia: towards a geological map of the east Gondwana margin
Marine National Facility
U. of Sydney Maria Seton Funded 2016
FranceTECTA: Tectonic Event of Cenozoic in the TasmanArea
Flotte Océanographique Française
Geological Survey of New Caledonia
J. Collot Funded 2015-2018 TECTA and VESPA are complementary voyages to address the question of how subduction zones initiate.
VESPA: Volcanic Evolution of South Pacific Arcs
Flotte Océanographique Française
Ifremer M. Patriat Funded 2015-2018
New ZealandThe unbearable warmness of surviving in the Eocene ocean
Marsden GNS Science C. Hollis Completed 2014-2017 Funded two PhDs (Pascher, Shepherd) who undertook paleontological studies of related DSDP sites 206, 207, 283, 592. Both subsequently sailed on IODP expeditions (371, 375). Also funded proponents Dickens and Huber to attend NZ
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IODP Proposals and funded national and international projects on the Hikurangi margin in support and complementary to IODP Expedition 374
Title Agency Institution Lead PI Status Planned CommentIODP Proposals
Ocean-ice sheet interactions and West Antarctic Ice Sheet vulnerability: clues from the Neogene and
Quaternary record of the outer Ross Sea continental margin
IODP Victoria U. of Wellington
R. McKay Exp 374 Completed
4 January to 8 March 2018
751-Full
New ZealandDevelop and undertake IODP Expedition 374 (Ross Sea)
Rutherford Discovery Fellowship
Victoria U. of Wellington
R. McKay Completed 2008-2012
Predicting a Sea Change: Antarctic ice-ocean interactions in a warming world
Marsden Victoria U. of Wellington
A/Prof N. Bertler and R McKay
Current 2015-2018
Southern Ocean and Antarctic climate response to high atmospheric CO2 forcing
New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute grant
Victoria U. of Wellington and GNS Science
R Levy and R McKay.
Completed 2013
IODP Proposals and funded national and international projects on the Hikurangi margin in support and complementary to IODP Expeditions 372 and 375Title Agency Institution Lead PI Status Planned CommentIODP Proposals
Submitted 2011: Multiphase Drilling Project: Unlocking the secrets of slow slip by drilling at the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand
IODP GNS Science/UTIG L. Wallace This is the umbrella proposal for 781A and 781B
781
July 2018
Submitted 2011: Unlocking the secrets of slow slip by drilling at the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand
IODP Penn State D. Saffer Exp 375 Completed
Nov 26, 2017-Jan 4, 2018 and Mar 8-May 5, 2018
781A: Riserless Drill Ship Proposal to drill 4 holes offshore Gisborne. JOIDES Resolution Facilities Board has now time-tabled this for USA FY18 (Oct 2017-Oct 2018)
Submitted 2013: Unlocking the secrets of slow slip by drilling at the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand: Riser drilling to intersect the plate interface
IODP GNS Science/ UTIG L Wallace Chikyu IODP Facility Board
2020-2025 781B: Riser Drill Ship Proposal to drill ~6km to plate interface
Submitted 2013: Creeping Gas Hydrate Slides: Slow Deformation of Submarine Landslides on the Hikurangi Margin
IODP University of Auckland
I Pecher Exp 372 Completed
Nov 26, 2017-Jan 4, 2018
APL 841: Ancillary Riserless Drill Ship Proposal to 781A-FULL
United States HOBITSS: Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip
NSF UTIG L. Wallace Completed 2014-2016 Marine deployment of seafloor observatory: complimentary science to IODP 781A-FULL
Unlocking the secrets of slow slip at the Northern Hikurangi Subduction margin, New Zealand: CORK observatory development and installation
NSF UTIG L. Wallace Current 2016-2018 Borehole observatory: complimentary science to IODP proposals
The Thermal Regime of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone and Shallow Slow Slip Events, New Zealand.
NSF Oregon State University
R. Harris Completed June 2015 Marine seafloor observations and seismic surveys: complimentary science to IODP 781A-Full
A community 3D seismic investigation of fault property controls on slow-slip along the Hikurangi megathrust
NSF UTIG N. Bangs Current Jan 2018 Complimentary science to IODP 781A-Full and 781B-FULL
July 2018
Collaborative Research: Controls on along-strike variations in locked
and creeping megathrust behavior at the Hikurangi convergent margin (SHIRE)
NSF UTIG K. McIntosh Current 2018 Marine and land geophysical surveys: complimentary science to IODP 781A-Full and 781B-FULL
3D variations in Hikurangi margin along-strike and down-dip electrical structure
NSF Columbia University (LDEO)
K. Key Funded 2019 Marine MT and CSEM along the Hikurangi margin and includes 30+ days of ship days
Hikurangi margin seabed fluid flow and tectonics
NSF U. of Washington E. Solomon Funded 2020 Seabed fluid sampling
Along-strike variation in shallow, offshore strain accumulation and slow slip at Hikurangi subduction margin, NZ
NSF Scripps D. Chadwell Funded 2018-2021 Seafloor geodetic deployments to track vertical and horizontal tectonic deformation at offshore Hikurangi
Germany SlamZ -Slide activity on the Hikurangi margin, New Zealand
BMBF U. of Bremmen K. Kuhn Current March 2016 Marine MeBo shallow drilling related to IODP 841-APL
UKUnlocking the secrets of slow slip with IODP drilling and next-generation seismic experiments
NERC Imperial College London
R. Bell Current 2017-2018 Deploy 60 seismometers from SeisUK instrument pool to assist with the wide-angle SHIRE (NSF) study
JapanScience of Slow Earthquakes Japan Funding
AgencyU. of Tokyo K. Obara Current 2016-2020 Includes 6 main projects
including understanding the mechanisms involved in the occurrence of slow Earthquakes
Earthquake and Volcano Hazards Observation and Research Program
MEXT U. of Tokyo K. Mochizuki Current 2014-2018 Japan-NZ-USA international collaborative research on
July 2018
fault slip mechanisms along the plate interface during Slow-slip events
Observation and modelling for slow slip event in the Hikurangi subduction zone
Earthquake Research Institute U. of Tokyo
U. of Tokyo Y. Ito Completed 2013-2015 Ocean Bottom Pressure Gauge deployments offshore Gisborne
Modeling relative motion along the plate interface around the slow-slip region in the Hikurangi subduction zone
Japan Funding Agency
Tohoku U. M. Kido Completed 2016-2017 Acquisition of acoustic GPS measurements offshore Gisborne
New Zealand Subductions Slippery Slope Marsden GNS Science S. Henrys Completed 2009-2013
How do tectonic plates lock together?
Marsden GNS Science M. Reyners Completed 2009-2013 Recently completed, with published results
Uncorking the Hydrate Bottle Marsden University of Auckland
I. Pecher Completed 2010-2014
Sticky or Creepy? What causes abrupt variations in seismic behaviour along subduction margins
Marsden GNS Science S. Ellis Completed 2013-2016 Testing the idea that fluid pressure variations along the subduction margin control sticking vs. creeping behaviour, by combining estimates for fluid sources and sinks with rock mechanics in a coupled fluid-mechanical model
Capturing the gurgling and chatter from slow slip deformation: Unlocking the role of fluids with magnetotellurics and seismology.
Marsden GNS Science S. Bannister and G. Caldwell
Completed 2012-2015 Onshore broadband seismic array and broadband MT array, targeting shallow tremor & LFEs associated with SSEs, recording from Nov 2011 to Nov 2014. Marsden now completed.
July 2018
Does the southern edge of the Hikurangi Plateau control Otago tectonics?
Marsden GNS Science M. Reyners Completed 2013-2016 Seismic tomography of southern Canterbury-Otago region
Can slow subduction zone deformation rapidly increase stress on nearby faults
Marsden GNS Science B. Fry Current 2016-2019 Apply seismic methods to HOBITSS data map and identify changes in physical
properties (i.e. stress) across a cycle of slow-slip deformation in the northern Hikurangi subduction
HSM: Hikurangi subduction earthquakes and slip behaviour
MBIE Endeavour
GNS Science L. Wallace Current 2017-2022 Diagnosing peril posed by the Hikurangi subduction zone: New Zealand’s largest plate boundary fault
GHR: Harnessing New Zealand Gas Hydrate Resources
MBIE Contestable
GNS Science G. Crutchley Completed 2012-2018 Fundamental research on NZ gas hydrate systems
HYDEE: Gas hydrates: opportunities and implications
MBIE Endeavour
GNS Science G. Crutchley Current 2018-2023 Economic opportunities and environmental implications of energy extraction from gas hydrates
Great Megathrust earthquake hazard in New Zealand
NHRP Geomarine Research
B. Hayward Completed 2013-14 Assessing evidence for a margin-wide subduction earthquake ~600 years BP
Landslide generated tsunami model for Cook Strait
NHRP NIWA/GNS Science J. Mountjoy/W. Power
Completed 2010-2014 Development of a probabilistic model for landslide generated tsunami based on the Cook Strait Canyons
Eastern Marlborough Fault System NHRP NIWA/UoC P. Barnes Completed 2015-17 Identification of structure, slip rate, and earthquake source characteristics of major strike-slip faults (including Hope, Chancet, Needles and Boo Boo
July 2018
faults), upper Marlborough continental margin
Weaving Earth’s Weak Seams: Manifestations and mechanical consequences of rock fabric development in active faults and shear zones
Rutherford Discovery Fellowship
UoO V. Toy In progress 2017-2021 Includes further analysis of composition and mechanical properties of Japan Trench samples and development of computational methods that will be applied to analysis of Hikurangi Margin (exp 372 and 375) datasets.
IODP Proposals and funded national and international projects in support and complementary to IODP Expedition 376 on Brothers Volcano
Title Agency Institution Lead PI Status Planned CommentIODP Proposals
Submitted 2012 and accepted 2017: Brothers Arc Flux: Gateway to the Subarc mantle: volatile flux, metal transport, and conditions for early life.
IODP GNS Science C. de Ronde Exp 376 Current May 5 – July 5, 2018
First drilling of a hydrothermally active submarine arc volcano by IODP
United States Hydrothermal and Microbiological Investigations of the Active Brothers Volcano in the Kermadec Arc
NSF WHOI S. Humphris Funded 2018 AUV Jason survey of Brothers volcano for heat flux, vent fluids, microbes and stratigraphy
GermanyDFG U. Bremen W. Bach Funded Not yet
scheduled Drilling with MeBO the upper parts of Brothers volcano that were cased during IODP Exp 376
IODP Proposals and funded national and international projects in support and complementary to IODP Expedition 343 JFAST
Searching for slippery nanopowders in earthquake-generating
UoO Research Grants
UoO V. Toy Completed 2016-2017 Coupled electron microscopic and
July 2018
megathrust faults synchrotron-CT analyses of principal slip zone materials from the Alpine Fault and the Japan Trench Subduction Thrust. Supported acquisition of data reported in PhD Thesis of Martina Kirilova and two resultant papers.
Searching for slippery nanopowders in earthquake-generating megathrust faults [IODP expedition 343]
ANZIC Legacy Funding
UoO K. Gessner, N. Timms, V. Toy
In progress 2015-2018 Coupled electron microscopic and synchrotron-CT analyses of principal slip zone materials from the Alpine Fault and the Japan Trench Subduction Thrust. Data are being prepared for publication at present.
How does particle arrangement in Fault Rocks affect the earthquakes they generate?
Spring8 synchrotron
UoO V. Toy Completed 2017 Supported acquisition of further synchrotron-CT data from Japan Trench Subduction Thrust and Alpine Fault samples, as well as from Japan’s Median Tectonic Line.
Weaving Earth’s Weak Seams: Manifestations and mechanical consequences of rock fabric development in active faults and shear zones
Rutherford Discovery Fellowship
UoO V. Toy In progress 2017-2021 Includes further analysis of composition and mechanical properties of Japan Trench samples and development of computational methods that will be applied to analysis of Hikurangi Margin (exp 372 and 375) datasets.